How to See Yourself As You Really Are
Extensive teachings on "How to See Yourself As You Really Are" by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron My religion is kindness
Starting with a summary of His Holiness' perspective on universal spiritual values. Identifying our counterproductive…
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The need for insight
Examples of how we actively misapprehend reality and the problems it brings.
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Discovering the source of problems
How the mind reifies objects, creating false appearances, causing afflictions to arise.
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Why understanding the truth is needed
As long as we have the seeds of anger in our mind, we will find…
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Apprehending objects and the impact of interrelatedness
Explaining the three ways of seeing objects. Showing how impermanent phenomena depend on each other…
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Dependent arising and realism
Teaching the method side of the path, reflecting on how we are completely dependent on…
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Dependence on parts and reasoning of dependent arising
Teaching on the three types of dependence and how to analyze the way phenomena and…
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Emptiness does not mean nothingness
A teaching on the difference between conventional and ultimate analysis of objects in order to…
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Seeing the interdependence of phenomena
Understanding phenomena are empty of inherent existence because they are dependent arising. Avoid notion of…
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Dependent arising and emptiness
An understanding of cause and effect is necessary for and compatible with the realization of…
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Causes and conditions for enlightenment
Understanding emptiness in the context of the entire Buddhist path, with the wish to attain…
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Middle way school and focusing your mind
What the self is and is not. Consciousness can be valid and mistaken at the…
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